Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 213 - 17: Rain Magic Pass Ranking, Branch Selection Choices

Chapter 213: Chapter 17: Rain Magic Pass Ranking, Branch Selection Choices

Zhao Xing walked to the bow of the Flying Boat and took out the Cloud Rain Pearl. Its deep blue color immediately attracted the attention of everyone on board.

"His Cloud Rain Pearl has collected such a large amount," Jiang He said with a sharp look in his eyes, "It’s probably the most collected on this Flying Boat."

"Lucky guy," Jiang Hai said sourly. "He was the first to find it."

Zhuo Li watched the blue pearl, and his previously smug expression faded.

Just by looking at this rain bead, as long as Zhao Xing’s Rain Technique isn’t too weak, he could achieve good results in this test.

"Without a hint of blue in the rain bead, even proficient cloud-walking would be in vain; if the rain bead is seven-tenths blue, even mountains would crumble under the induced rain," Hua Zhilin recited softly while staring at the pearl in Zhao Xing’s hand, "Brother Zhao’s rain bead is at least half-blue, isn’t it?"

Zhao Xing: "..."

He suspected that Hua Zhilin was deliberately messing with people’s minds.

"Is there a rule that forbids others from interfering?" he asked.

The Judge, also somewhat annoyed, laid down the law, "There is. Any further disturbance during a person’s test will result in immediate disqualification."

With that, everyone fell silent, quietly watching Zhao Xing perform.

"Clouds, come!"

Zhao Xing pointed with his hand and immediately used the Swallowing Cloud Skill.

Due to the five suns in the sky, the environment was scorching, and the cloud layer was only about ten meters in diameter and two meters thick.

However, Zhao Xing’s Cloud Technique was very stable.

If the Swallowing Cloud Technique wasn’t stable, how could it absorb other cloud techniques and use them for one’s own benefit?

Moreover, the cloud layer condensed by the Swallowing Cloud could even exhibit characteristics of other cloud techniques.

Despite the severity of the five suns, it didn’t affect him much more than when he was in the Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Zone; the only difficulty was in expanding the water source.

"Cloud Rain Pearl, go!"

Zhao Xing tossed the blue Cloud Rain Pearl into the cloud layer.

"Rumble~"

The pearl instantly emitted a gurgling cloud vapor, causing the cloud layer to quickly grow larger.

In just a moment, it had grown more than ten meters thick and a hundred meters long.

As for how wide it was, the others couldn’t tell because the Flying Boat’s view was fixed; Zhao Xing’s cloud layer had completely obscured their line of sight.

"Judging by the scale, just in terms of base points, he’s already several times ahead of the others," He Yu thought silently, "Forget it, the incident before Ten Thousand Leich doesn’t really matter anymore."

With first-rate Cloud Technique, the ninth rank in Thunder Magic hunting, and now such good results in the Rain Magic Pass, He Yu wasn’t so upset anymore about being used by Zhao Xing as a pawn before.

Maybe in the future, he could even use the incident to his advantage!

"Pitter-patter~"

Rain began to fall from the cloud layer.

At this time, Zhao Xing didn’t choose to control the black and white pieces, he just let the rain fall naturally.

This rain wouldn’t actually reach the ground, it would be evaporated below five hundred meters.

However, for the base points, it only mattered how much rain came out of the cloud layer and into the area below five hundred meters.

It had to last at least 15 minutes; if it was less than that, the score for duration would be zero.

The base points were the product of duration times the amount of rain; if the rain amount was too great but the duration scored zero, it wouldn’t mean much.

Zhao Xing was very steady.

He persisted for a full seven quarters of an hour before the Cloud Rain Pearl gradually became transparent, dwindling to only ten percent of the rain volume.

It wasn’t until after the seven quarters of an hour that he picked up a black piece from the chess basket at the bow, held it in his hand, and prepared to go for the bonus points.

"Buzz~"

Zhao Xing pressed down with both hands, and as he did so,

everyone’s line of sight suddenly cleared.

He had controlled the cloud layer to descend.

"Hmm? He can make the cloud layer descend, too?"

"This man’s Cloud Control Technique is really something."

"With the five suns in the sky, as one brings yin down and yang up, the lower the clouds go, the harder it becomes to stabilize them."

"He wants to decrease the distance to the ground, in order to operate the black and white Mechanical Puppets more precisely."

"That’s too confident, isn’t it! After scoring so many base points, he’s still taking risks? If it were me, I would withdraw early."

Everyone had different thoughts, and even the Judge glanced at Zhao Xing.

But with the prohibition in place, no one spoke up to disturb Zhao Xing at this time.

The cloud layer kept descending until it reached a height of five hundred meters, and only then did Zhao Xing control it to stop.

As it descended, the cloud layer shrank by more than half; it was a necessary action to combat the uprising yang energy, forcing the clouds to become denser.

This maneuver had its pros and cons. The downside was that the coverage area shrank, and it was uncertain if rain would fall into the puppet zone. The upside was that it cleared the view for spellcasting.

Zhao Xing showed outstanding control with his Cloud Technique, which could be described as exquisite.

However, his abilities with Rain Magic had not yet been revealed; was this move confidence or arrogance?

Everyone watched intently below.

Lightning flickered within the cloud layer, its presence subdued, giving off a cold aura.

Suddenly, large blue raindrops began to fall from the cloud layer, each the size of a fist, emanating a chilling aura!

The perfectly mastered Intermediate level [Ice Rain]!

As soon as the Ice Rain emerged from the cloud layer, it plummeted rapidly.

"Splatter~"

The raindrops hit the top of the silver-white Mechanical Puppets’ heads.

"Buzz~" The area on top of the silver-white Mechanical Puppet’s head that was struck lit up with a faint Array glow.

Following the glow, its movements became stiff, frozen for at least two seconds.

"Bang!"

A black Mechanical Puppet armed with a sword swung fiercely, knocking it down to the ground.

Not far away, a silver-white Mechanical Puppet leaped high to strike down a black Mechanical Puppet, but just then,

"Splatter!"

The raindrop fell on its wrist. After the blue raindrop fell, light spread across its entire arm, rendering it motionless.

"Splatter~" "Splatter~" "Splatter~" "Splatter~"

The black and silver-white formations intertwined, but the raindrops falling from above gave the black formation a tremendous advantage.

The strength of the black and white sides was completely equal, precisely calculated to ensure that even after fighting for three days and nights, no winner would emerge.